Curt Doolittle

Form: Definition

  • What Is Capitalism?

    The suppression of predation and parasitism, the establishment of an allocation of property,  a means of resolving disputes, and the organization of production must be constructed.
    1. Totalitarian: It can be organized involuntarily: the elimination of private property, planning and slavery in many of its forms.
    2. Capitalist: It can be organized voluntarily by the use of private property, money, and prices.
    3. Mixed: It can be organized by a mix of private property, money, and prices, and the totalitarian construction of commons.  (Which is what we do today). 
    A market forms under any condition in which goods are constructed for the purpose of exchange.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-capitalism

  • How Do You Enterprise Capitalism?

    This is an illogical question.  How do you “Fast” the color “Green”.  It makes no sense.  Capitalism is the voluntary organization of production through the use of private property, contract, law, money, prices, accounting, and interest.  And the use of  and reward for use of resources is allocated to those who most satisfy the demand for those resources by the information provided by prices.

    An enterprise is voluntary organization of capital (time, people, money, assets) among individuals in order to construct an hypothesis that might produce a profit on the use of that capital – if their hypothesis is correct.

    An enterprise requires capital. 

    Aside from that the question is nonsensical.

    Cheers

    https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-enterprise-capitalism

  • How Do You Enterprise Capitalism?

    This is an illogical question.  How do you “Fast” the color “Green”.  It makes no sense.  Capitalism is the voluntary organization of production through the use of private property, contract, law, money, prices, accounting, and interest.  And the use of  and reward for use of resources is allocated to those who most satisfy the demand for those resources by the information provided by prices.

    An enterprise is voluntary organization of capital (time, people, money, assets) among individuals in order to construct an hypothesis that might produce a profit on the use of that capital – if their hypothesis is correct.

    An enterprise requires capital. 

    Aside from that the question is nonsensical.

    Cheers

    https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-enterprise-capitalism

  • Conservative EPISTEMOLOGY is one of anti-hubris: a prohibition on consensus buil

    Conservative EPISTEMOLOGY is one of anti-hubris: a prohibition on consensus building, and an emphasis on demonstrated evidence in SOCIAL MATTERS. It is a form of skepticism. Or in critical rationalism, we would say ‘criticism’, and therefore ‘scientific’.

    Progressive EPISTEMOLOGY is one of consensus-building where intentions rather than outcomes matter. It is a form of optimism

    The reason being is that progressivism does not seek truth but to expand numbers regardless of quality, where conservatism seeks truth to minimize their numbers and maximize quality.

    Or, the feminine progressive strategy and the masculine conservative strategy.

    We have no idea what we are doing, we just justify our intuitions. Underneath it is all reproductive instincts and nothing else.

    So conservatives use rational, arational and irrational means to cause us to act scientifically, while progressives use rational, arational, and irrational means to cause us to act unscientifically – as an extended organization wherein each of us has only fragmentary knowledge.

    This is quite profound really.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-09 04:07:00 UTC

  • is a political pejorative applied to any economic policy that someone doesn’t li

    http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-definition-of-austerity-in-economics-and-economic-policy/answer/Erik-Fair?srid=u4Qv&share=1—“Austerity” is a political pejorative applied to any economic policy that someone doesn’t like, e.g. anything that reduces Social Welfare payments which a government cannot afford, or that results in more competition for cosseted political groups like Labor Unions.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-06 14:54:00 UTC

  • COMMON (CIVIC) PROPERTY VS SHAREHOLDER (PRIVATE) PROPERTY Ownership of property

    COMMON (CIVIC) PROPERTY VS SHAREHOLDER (PRIVATE) PROPERTY

    Ownership of property consists of the following permissions:

    Usus: the use of it but not consumption, the fruits, transfer or damage to it. ex: a park.

    Fructus: the right to the fruits of it. ex: a common grazing area.

    Mancipio: the right to transfer (sell). ex: farm land

    Abusus : the right to consume or destroy. ex: a mine.

    Common Property in property in which one is a shareholder, with limited shareholder rights. Generally you can use (usus) but not privatize or damage (fructus, mancipio, abusus).

    The difference between common property and shareholder property is that your ownership of commons is determined by citizenship in a polity and your ownership of shareholder property by citizenship in a private corporation consisting of private capital.

    Curt.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-23 13:13:00 UTC

  • HONESTY, TRUTHFULNESS AND TRUTH VS PARASITISM AND DISCOUNTING. Honestly, truthfu

    HONESTY, TRUTHFULNESS AND TRUTH VS PARASITISM AND DISCOUNTING.

    Honestly, truthfulness, and truth are three different things.

    Honesty is what you believe prior to criticism, truthfulness is demonstration of scientific warranty having performed thorough criticism, and analytic truth is something we are likely prohibited from knowing, except as tautology. It is extremely difficult to make fallacious arguments if they are stated truthfully.

    People want to rely upon religious argument, moral argument, and rationalist argument, instead of scientific (truthful) speech: because it allows them to lie. Religious argument is an authoritarian mythos – often for the common good, because it allowed us to overcome tribalism – but just as often not. Moral argument without Propertarian criticism is an excellent means of lying because it forces guilt and shaming into the conversation. Rationalism is an exceptional means of lying because it forces verbalism into the argument. Postmodernism is the most masterful lie ever constructed after religion.

    —“But, … are you lying if you think you are telling the truth?”—

    This in itself is a verbalism: imprecise language that permits deceit through obscurity. The correct statement is, “if I fail to warranty by due diligence my statements, I am engaged in an act of willful ignorance.” Most of us engage in willful ignorance in order to use deceit to justify our discounts (parasitism). All language is negotiation, and all moral argument is justification. Truth isn’t kind to our justifications. But truthfulness is as necessary a commons as is property.

    – Humans acquire. We attempt to obtain the greatest benefit, in the shortest time, with the least effort, with the greatest certainty, at the lowest risk.

    – Cooperation is a multiplier on acquisition.

    – Parasitism in all its forms is a disincentive to cooperate: murder, violence, theft, fraud, fraud by omission, fraud by indirection, fraud by obstruction, free riding, privatization of the commons, socialization of losses, conspiracy, invasion, conquest, and predation.

    – Parasitism is an unearned discount (theft) on cooperation. Commons are a premium on cooperation.

    – Cooperation, norms, truth telling, and property are costs – the premiums we pay for cooperation.

    – Everything else is theft.

    – Economic velocity and group production, acquisition and consumption are the result of the total suppression of parasitism in all its forms. The greater the suppression of parasitism, the greater the warranty of truth telling, the higher the economic velocity.

    It’s just math really.

    Humans are entirely algorithmically expressible creatures.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-20 05:34:00 UTC

  • WORDS OF THE DAY – REPRODUCTION! 🙂 Consanguinity, Consanguinous, or Panaluan (g

    WORDS OF THE DAY – REPRODUCTION! 🙂

    Consanguinity, Consanguinous, or Panaluan (genetics): mating within an extended family, excluding only one’s children. (in theory the prohibition on reproducing with one’s children evolved as a stage, but no culture practices it any longer.)

    Inbreeding(genetics): mating with individuals that are closely related genetically. Specific case is Father’s Brother’s Daughter or Cousin-marriage. Antonym:outcrossing

    Near-breeding(genetics): mating with extended relations but with a prohibition on cousin marriage (out to some minimum number of generations.)

    Endogamy (norm): the practice of mating within a specific ethnic group, class, or social group.

    Homogamy: (norm) mating between individuals who are, in some culturally important way, similar to each other. Homogamy may be based on socioeconomic status, class, gender, ethnicity, or religion. (I avoid this term, and rely on ‘endogamous’.)

    Outbreeding(genetics): Mating by choice with those outside of near genetic relations.

    Exogamy, Exogamous (norms): mating only outside specific ethnic group, class, or social group.

    Assortative Mating(selection bias): a nonrandom mating pattern in which individuals with similar genotypes and/or phenotypes mate with one another more frequently than would be expected under a random mating pattern.

    Hypergamic, Hypergamy (selection bias): Seeking to mate with genetic(desirable), social(status) and wealth(consumption) superiors.

    Panmixia, Panmixis, Panmitic: random mating. A panmictic population is one where all individuals are potential partners.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-13 06:13:00 UTC

  • A DEFINITION OF PROPERTY (from 2013) I have developed a number of additional mea

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/01/15/the-complete-definition-of-property-excerpt-from-propertarianism/PROPERTARIANISM: A DEFINITION OF PROPERTY

    (from 2013)

    I have developed a number of additional means of saying the same thing, but it’s interesting how little it’s changed.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-11 06:53:00 UTC

  • WHAT IS MORALITY? (from elsewhere) Cooperation is extremely beneficial. As we ev

    WHAT IS MORALITY?

    (from elsewhere)

    Cooperation is extremely beneficial. As we evolved cooperation, we evolve instincts to prefer it. But Cooperation opens the door to parasitism, which negates the value of cooperation. So we evolved moral instincts that inform us to punish parasites and parasitism. In economics this parasitism is referred to more gently as ‘free riding’.

    That which is moral is that which is productive non-parasitic, and provides incentives to cooperate. That which is immoral is that which is unproductive, parasitic, and reduces incentives for cooperation.

    Most groups develop tolerances for, and reward for, mutual insurance. Insurance is not parasitic as long as it is not a form of dependency. Tolerance for paying this insurance normally decreases with kinship distance. Few cultures develop insurance regardless of kinship difference.

    Westerners were successful in both outbreeding (eliminating cousin marriage), and in generating widespread trade. And western culture for ancient reasons, uniquely favors truth-telling. The (protestant) west developed high trust, breaking the kinship barrier to insurance.

    So the (protestant) west was able to (in *fact*) produce the most moral society: the greatest restraint of parasitism, and therefore by consequence, the greatest economic output by systematically suppressing all free riding (parasitism).

    Whereupon, as a result of political inclusion during the enlightenment, the marxists, socialists and feminists via the novelty of democracy, systematically worked to use their newfound influence in government to circumvent the suppression of parasitism, and they institutionalized parasitism via the state – despite it’s eradication from institutionalization in norms.

    As limits to parasitism, and the fragility of parasitism , and the accumulated malincentives of parasitism became visible, the western state evolved however, into a vast insurance company. And the general principle it operates by is Rawlsian: “produce the greatest parasitism that does not kill the incentives of the host”.

    The question is, whether this general rule produces a society that is sustainable or not. Progressives advance it because they have faith in technology, conservatives resist it because they have little faith in the nature of man.

    Conservatives are correct in their understanding of man. Progressives correct in the (temporary) benefit of tolerating parasitism.

    But, the American experience as misinformed the world: the sale of cheap land is our equivalent of the ‘curse of oil’.

    The oil producers do not evolve advanced economies because of the malincenives of oil. Westerners destroy their high trust society because of the malincentives of selling cheap land to immigrating members of low trust societies without forcibly indoctrinating them into high trust western cultural norms.

    We are only as moral as we can get away with avoiding. Morality evolved AFTER self interest. And most of us seek parasitism wherever possible, whenever we will not be punished for it.

    Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-21 02:21:00 UTC